First edition

"New, except seven reprinted from Empedocles on Etna (London) 1852, viz: Empedocles on Etna, Human life, Youth and calm, Youth's agitations, Lines written in Kensington gardens, The second best, and Progress."--T. B. Smart, Bibl. of M. Arnold, 1892

Empedocles on Etna.--Thyrsis.--Saint Brandan.--Sonnets.--Calais sands.--Dove beach.--The terrace at Berne.--Stanzas composed at Carnac.--A southern night.--Fragment of a chorus of a Dejaneira.--Palladium.--Human life.--Early death and fame.--Youth and calm.--Youth's agitations.--Growing old.--The progress of poesy.--Epitaphs.--The last word.--A wish.--Lines written in Kensington gardens.--The second best.--A caution to poets.--Pis-aller.--Epilogue to Lessing's Laocoön.--Bacchanalia.--Progress.--Rugby chapel.--Heine's grave.--Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.--Obermann once more

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